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the way of the world

the way of the world
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen
    "the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world"

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    1. That is the way of the world.
    2. Paris is the center of the world, in a way.
    3. Honesty does not always pay. Such is the way of the world.
    4. The motto of Twitter is "The best way to discover what’s new in your world".
    5. The world is in dire need of those who think in a more open-minded way.
    6. The Soviet Union proposes to the peoples of the world a new way - a way of equality and friendship of peoples, a way which has already proved to be so fruitful in our country.
    7. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
    8. In this harsh, petty world where money does the talking, his way of life is like a breath of fresh air.
    9. I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps.
    10. They had gone out to the world in illicit and forbidden relationship of a spiritual character, and the world had been let into them in a defiling and corrupting way, resulting in that end which is always and ever an abomination to God.
    11. I'm not a mountaineer, and I don't aspire to be one, but it's so cool to stand on a summit and see the world around me from places one can only get to on foot, with a lot of huffing and puffing and sweat along the way.
    12. The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
    13. The new quota should be transitional and may not prejudge the outcome of the negotiations under way in the context of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a result of the accession of the new Member States.
    14. The new quota must be transitional and may not prejudge the outcome of the negotiations under way in the context of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a result of the accession of new members.
    15. Such fixing must be transitional and may not prejudge the outcome of the negotiations under way in the context of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a result of the accession of the new members.